In Deadly Embrace: Arabic Hunting Poems

A collection of poems about nature and power To Ibn al-Muʿtazz and his Abbasid contemporaries, the hunt...
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Author: Ibn Al-Muʿtazz
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Language: English
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In Deadly Embrace: Arabic Hunting Poems by Ibn Al-Muʿtazz

In Deadly Embrace: Arabic Hunting Poems

$107.60

In Deadly Embrace: Arabic Hunting Poems

$107.60
Author: Ibn Al-Muʿtazz
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

A collection of poems about nature and power

To Ibn al-Muʿtazz and his Abbasid contemporaries, the hunt was more than a diversion--it was the theater for their poetic and political endeavors, captured here in fifty-nine Arabic hunting poems, or ṭardiyyāt. The poems of In Deadly Embrace describe hunting expeditions with animals trained to hunt, including saluki hounds and birds of prey. Many were composed after these outings, when the hunting party gathered to enjoy the game they caught.

Poetry was central to Abbasid society and served as a method of maintaining networks of patronage and friendship; the poems in this collection reflect these power dynamics and allowed Ibn al-Muʿtazz--prince of the realm and in line for the caliphate--to explore his own relationship to social and political power and to demonstrate his fitness to rule.

Ibn al-Muʿtazz was an influential poet and literary theorist of the "Modernist" school of poetry. In Deadly Embrace merges the Modernists' new techniques and styles with age-old themes: military prowess and wisdom, fitness to rule and comradeship, the camaraderie of the hunt and the cult of heroic masculinity. Groundbreaking and evocative, the poems paint vivid pictures of hunting scenes while posing deep questions about our attentiveness to the natural world and the relationship of the human to the nonhuman.

Author: Ibn Al-Muʿtazz
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 09/05/2023
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.10w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781479853182

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